Emergency Management Specialist (Response)

Federal Emergency Management Agency•Brooklyn, NY

About The Position

This position is in FEMA Region Two’s Response Division. The specialist maintains regional and national situational awareness, analyzes information to assess potential impacts, and identifies emerging and active incidents. The role coordinates with other entities during crises, disasters, humanitarian emergencies, hazards, and natural or man-made/technological incidents, and provides senior officials with information to direct federal emergency response. It also supports federal coordination for terrorism response, consequence management for National Special Security Events and Special Event Assessment Rating events, and incidents requiring communications up to the Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information level. FEMA employees have regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities and may be recalled at any time for operations. This may involve irregular hours, duties outside the official position description, work away from the official duty station, and extensive travel with little advance notice. Deployments may last weeks or months and may involve relocation to austere and operationally challenging emergency sites. Selected candidates must attend a three-week in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding; FEMA covers travel expenses. A one-year probationary period applies to new federal competitive service employees and new supervisors and managers.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required.
Successfully pass and maintain a Top Secret / Special Sensitive background investigation.
Register for Selective Service, if required.
Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements.
Obtain and maintain a government credit card.
Be able to deploy with little or no advance notice anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period.
GS-11: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9, including supporting technical advice and guidance on situational awareness monitoring and reporting; assisting with reports, information papers, and briefings on emergency management topics; and participating in engagements with partners and stakeholders on emergency operations. Alternatively, applicants may qualify with three years of progressively higher-level education toward a Ph.D. or equivalent in a related field, or a combination of qualifying education and experience.
GS-12: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-11, including delivering technical advice and guidance on situational awareness monitoring and reporting; developing and reviewing reports, information papers, and briefings on emergency management topics; and participating in engagements with partners and stakeholders on emergency operations. No educational substitution is available at GS-12.
Attend a three-week in-person training course in Emmitsburg, Maryland, within six months of onboarding.
Complete and certify an Optional Form 306 before entry on duty if given a conditional offer.

Responsibilities

Maintain regional situational awareness, analyze information to determine possible impacts, and identify potential and occurring incidents within the region’s areas of responsibility.
Maintain national situational awareness of the agency’s operational status and monitor emerging or potential incidents with possible national-level operational consequences.
Coordinate with other entities during responses to crises, disasters, humanitarian emergencies, hazards, and natural or man-made/technological incidents.
Provide senior officials with relevant information needed to direct federal emergency response.
Support coordination of the federal response to acts of terrorism and consequence management for National Special Security Events, Special Event Assessment Rating events, and other incidents.
Communicate and coordinate information at levels up to Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information.